tiling on kitchen floor 50% solid 50% timber

jdslimma · Post by **jdslimma** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:58 am

Hi, any advice would be greatly appreciated: Having removed fireplace and had steelwork installed, now have a large room (6.6m x 3.6m) to be our kitchen. I wish to install electric underfloor heating and tile over but the floor is half solid concrete and half floorboards with centre sections where fireplaces used to be very uneven. (see pictures attached) What method should I use to prepare floor and provide adequate insulation? Do I need to treat each area differently or ideally do the same thing throughout? Thanks.

Simon Site Manager · Post by **Simon Site Manager** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:59 am

No pics,

I would treat the floor as per the concrete half.

S

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:37 am

as long as your aware that electric underfloor heating is epensive to run compared with gas
you also have to use it differently because off the low heat output and lead time to warm up its desighned as a system to be left on for 24 hrs or most off the day

if you are used to having the heating on for 2 hrs in the morning and 4 at night then you will need another source off heat becase off how long it takes to warm up

underfloor heating should never be concidered as an economy heating system its not its more expensive to run than any other method including electric radiators

tictic · Post by **tictic** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:06 pm

hope i aint to late!!!

2 differant subtrates you will need to have an exspansion joint between them..timber/concrete, floor will condract and exspand at differant rates.thus if no exspansion joint(tiles will fail).

royaloakcarpentry · Post by **royaloakcarpentry** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:19 pm

Fail or get a lovely crack across them where the two substrates meet.

tiling on kitchen floor 50% solid 50% timber

tiling on kitchen floor 50% solid 50% timber

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